¶The And the fifth angel sounded
blew, and I saw a star from the sky which had has fallen
to the earth.,[a] andThe the
key to of the pit of the abyss was given to
him it.

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a Cf. Is. 14:12: 14:12 Look how you have fallen from the sky, / O shining one, son of the dawn! [LXX: πῶς ἐξέπεσεν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὁ ἑωσφόρος ὁ πρωὶ ἀνατέλλων, How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! (Brenton)] / You have been cut down to the ground, / O conqueror of the nations!14:13 You said to yourself, / I will climb up to the sky. / Above the stars of El.... / 14:15 But you were brought down to Sheol, / to the remote slopes of the pit [LXX: νῦν δὲ εἰς ᾅδου καταβήσῃ καὶ εἰς τὰ θεμέλια τῆς γῆς, But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth (Brenton)] (NET). Cf. also Rv. 8:1.

He And (the star) opened the pit of the abyss,
and smoke went up out of rose from the pit,[a]
like the smoke from a*burning great furnace.,[b]The and the sun and the air were darkened because
of from the smoke from of the pit.

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a Cf. Rv. 11:7.

b Cf. Gn. 19:28: He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace (NET) and Ex. 19:18: Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace... (NET).

Then out of And locusts emerged from the smoke came
forth locusts on into the earth,[a]
and power authority was given to them, as
the scorpions of the earth have power authority.

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a Cf. Jl. 1:4: What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, / what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, / and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! (NET) and Jl. 2:2: It will be a day of dreadful darkness, / a day of foreboding storm clouds, / like blackness spread over the mountains. / It is a huge and powerful army – / there has never been anything like it ever before, / and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come! (NET).

They were And it was told to them in order that
they should will not hurt the grass[a]
of the earth, neither any every green thing
plant,[b] neither any every tree,[c]but only except those the people
who don’t do not have God’s the
seal of God on their foreheads.[d]

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a Note grass, not green grass as in Rv. 8:7.

b Gk. πᾶν χλωρόν, every green (thing).

c The locusts in Joel, however, do harm the land. Jl 1:7-12: 1:7 They have destroyed our vines; / they have turned our fig trees into mere splinters. / They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown them aside; / the twigs are stripped bare.... 1:10 The crops of the fields have been destroyed. / The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. / The fresh wine has dried up; / the olive oil languishes. / 1:11 Be distressed, farmers; / wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. / For the harvest of the field has perished. / 1:12 The vine has dried up; / the fig tree languishes – / the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. / In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. / Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up! (NET) and Jl 2:3: Like fire they devour everything in their path; / a flame blazes behind them. / The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, / but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness – / for nothing escapes them! (NET).

d See Rv. 7:3 and note (Ez. 9:4-6 and Ex. 12:7-13); 9:4; 13:16; 14:1; 17:5. (Also Jn. 6:27: ...For on him [the Son of Man] God the Father has set his seal [ESV].)

They were And it was given power to
them not in order that they should not to kill them, but in
order that they will be to torment them afflicted for
five months.,[a]Their and
their torment affliction was (will
be) like (the)torment affliction
of a scorpion, whenever it should strikes
a person.

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a Cf. Ex. 10:5-15: 10:5 They [locusts] will cover the surface of the earth, so that you will be unable to see the ground.... 10:6 They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day...! 10:14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt.... 10:15 They covered the surface of all the ground, so that the ground became dark with them... (NET).

In And in those days people will seek death, and,
they will in no way not find it.,They and they will desire to die, and death will
flee from them.[a]

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a Cf. Jer. 8:3: However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived, says the Lord who rules over all (NET).

The shapes And the likenesses of the locusts (were)
like horses prepared which have been readied for war.,[a]On and on their heads were something (were
what were)[b]like golden crowns similar to
gold, and their faces (were) like people’s
(the) faces of humans.,

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a Jl 2:4: They look like horses; / they charge ahead like war horses (NET).

Thus and thus did I saw see the
horses in the vision, and those who sat sitting on
them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow;.and And the heads of the horses (were) like
heads of lions.,Out and out of
their mouths proceed fire, and smoke, and
sulfur.

By From these three plagues were one a
third of mankind men[a] were killed:by out of the fire, and the
smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded
out of their mouths.,

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a Here (sixth trumpet) a third of people. In Rv. 8:7-12 (first four trumpets), a third of the earth, a third of the trees, and all green grass; a third of seas; a third of fresh water; and a third of the skies. Cf. also a fourth in Rv. 6:8.

The And the rest of mankind the
people, (those) who were not killed with in
these plagues, didn’t neither repentedof from the works of their hands,[a]—such
that that they wouldn’t will not worship
demons, and the idols of gold, and of
silver, and of brass, and of stone,
and of wood;,[b]
which can are neither able to see,
nor to hear, nor to walk.[c]—

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a Is. 2:8: Their land is full of worthless idols; / they worship the product of their own hands, / what their own fingers have fashioned (NET).

b Cf. Dn. 5:4: As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone (NET) and Dn. 5:23: ...You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone – gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend...! (NET).

c Cf. Ps. 115:4-7: 115:4 Their idols are made of silver and gold – / they are man-made. / 115:5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, / eyes, but cannot see, / 115:6 ears, but cannot hear, / noses, but cannot smell, / 115:7 hands, but cannot touch, / feet, but cannot walk. / They cannot even clear their throats (NET) and Ps. 135:15-17: 135:15 The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, / they are man-made. / 135:16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, / eyes, but cannot see, / 135:17 and ears, but cannot hear. / Indeed, they cannot breathe (NET).